dry wash

1. 1.

   the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

   Synonymswash

   Broaderstreambed

   West

Questions about dry wash

What does dry wash mean?

dry wash means "the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)".

What is another word for dry wash?

Close synonyms include wash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry wash a common word?

dry wash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.